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JAN 2019
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1/1/19
50 New Year's Resolution Ideas And How To Achieve Each Of Them
"What follows is a list of 50 common New Year's resolutions with a piece of advice and plenty of links to useful articles that deal with the issue in greater detail. If you are looking for effective ways of changing your life for the better, then you'll be sure to find tons of useful information here."
1/2/19
Google Trends: A Year in Search 2018
"Explore how Google data can be used to tell stories. Explore the year through the lens of Google Trends data in A Year in Search 2018".
1/3/19
camelcamelcamel
"camelcamelcamel: Amazon price tracker, Amazon price history charts, price watches, and price drop alerts."
1/4/19
Interactive Constitution of the USA
"On this site, constitutional experts interact with each other to explore the Constitution's history and what it means today. For each provision of the Constitution, scholars of different perspectives discuss what they agree upon, and what they disagree about. These experts were selected with the guidance of leaders of two prominent constitutional law organizations: The American Constitution Society and The Federalist Society. This project is sponsored by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation."
1/5/19
AAA: Daily Fuel Gauge Report
"AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report is updated each day and is the most comprehensive retail gasoline survey available. Everyday up to 120,000 self-serve stations are surveyed."
1/6/19
76th Annual Golden Globe Awards
The Golden Globe Awards began in January 1944 and honours the best in Hollywood's film and television - here's all you need to know for this year's Golden Globes.
1/7/19
NASA: Chandra X-ray Observatory
"The Chandra X-ray Observatory is part of NASA's fleet of 'Great Observatories' along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitizer Space Telescope and the now deorbited Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Chandra allows scientists from around the world to obtain X-ray images of exotic environments to help understand the structure and evolution of the universe."
1/8/19
EverydayHealth.com
"Health resources and personalized health tools. Information and news on depression, digestive health, diabetes, breast cancer, cardiovascular health, and much more."
1/9/19
Histography: Timeline of History
"Histography is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015."
1/10/19
NationMaster
"NationMaster is where stats come alive! We are a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from hundreds of sources. Using the forms below, you can get maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease. We want to be the web's one-stop resource for country statistics on everything from obesity to murders."
1/11/19
Computer Hope: How do I clear my Internet browser history?
"As you browse the Internet, everything you view is saved to the cache on your computer. Using cache helps everything load faster because data comes from your hard drive instead of a server in a different part of the world. To conserve hard drive space or keep your browsing private, you can clear or delete the history (cache). Select the your Internet browser from the following list to get started."
1/12/19
Listen Notes
Listen Notes is the best podcast search engine. It's like Google, but for podcasts. Search the whole Internet's podcasts. Curate your own podcast playlists. Listen on your favorite podcast player apps.
1/13/19
Info Please: Timeline of U.S. Government Shutdowns
1/14/19
Consumer Reports: How to Delete Online Accounts You No Longer Need
"Deleting online accounts is one of the best ways to protect your data security and privacy. The less data you have stored on corporate databases scattered across the internet, the safer you are from the misuse of personal information."
1/15/19
Holiday Weather
"Holiday-weather.com was launched in 2003 to offer an accurate and comprehensive weather report for major worldwide holiday destinations and cities around the world.One of the unique features of this website is the Holiday Weather Planner, which allows customers who are not sure of their destination, to search the average temperature, month of travel and area of travel, so that they plan their holiday based on the temperature of the holiday destination."
1/16/19
Inc.: These Are the 10 Best TED Talks of the Year, According to the Guy Who Runs TED
"Chris Anderson's picks for the 10 best TED talks of 2018. Touching on topics ranging from astronomy to social justice to artificial intelligence, they are guaranteed to change how you think about the world. "
1/17/19
Jetset Weather
With this application, they aim to provide the right weather data and tools so you can explore and plan your trips using a friendly interface. Since you most likely need to fly to your destination, they combine weather and flight data to make it easy for you to make a decision on your destination and dates.
1/18/19
Serious Eats:What You're Cooking: The Most Popular Posts of 2018
We are revisiting the most popular dishes, techniques, and guides of 2018. From mastering Italian cuisine to perfecting your brownies (it's possible), here are the posts you liked and cooked from most.
1/19/19
FreeForStudents
FreeForStudents collects the best student-exclusive freebies into one place, saving students both money and time.
1/20/19
AirVisual
AirVisual provides the world's #1 international air pollution app, which offers anyone free access to the world's largest air quality database, spanning 10000+ locations globally, a list which is growing every day. The app and AirVisual website were the very first to offer a 7-day pollution forecast, developed in-house using machine learning and artificial intelligence, enabling you to plan ahead and ensure that your weekly activities happen when air quality is the healthiest.
1/21/19
Audm
With Audm, you get to listen to stories from the most prestigious publishers including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, WIRED, Vanity Fair, and many more. Even if you don't already subscribe to them.
1/22/19
Fast Company: 12 maps that tell the extraordinary story of 2018
To mark the end of an extraordinary year, they compiled a list of some of the most compelling maps they've shared on Fast Company over the last 12 months. Most of these came from Esri, a spatial analytics company whose mapping software is used throughout the private and public sectors. The images in this link are just screen grabs, but you can click the links to find the corresponding interactive maps.
1/23/19
Pew Research Center: 18 striking findings from 2018
Pew Research Center takes the pulse of Americans and people around the world on a host of issues every year. They explore public opinion on topics ranging from foreign policy to cyberbullying, as well as demographic trends, such as the emergence of the post-Millennial generation and changes in the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Here are 18 of this year's standout findings, taken from their analyses over the past year.
1/24/19
Election Calendar
Though it's considered an off-year in US elections, there are still many important state-wide and municipal elections taking place throughout 2019. Election-Calendar.com is an independent, nonpartisan guide to those elections, and they be updated as new elections are announced.
1/25/19
BrainFacts.org
Powered by the global neuroscience community and overseen by an editorial board of leading neuroscientists from around the world, BrainFacts.org shares the stories of scientific discovery and the knowledge they reveal. Unraveling the mysteries of the brain has the potential to impact every aspect of human experience and civilization.
1/26/19
Snagfilms - Philathropic movies and TV Shows
For those of us looking to discover something different, SnagFilms has over 2,000 movies, TV show episodes, eye-opening documentaries and exclusive original comedy shorts. There is something to watch for everyone! Stream FREE video content on your mobile phone, tablet, desktop, OTT device or Smart TV!
1/27/19
National Geographic: 5 recycling myths busted
The recycling industry is changing rapidly, as are advancements in materials science and product design. The field has an increasingly global footprint and is affected by complex forces, from oil prices to national policies and consumer preferences. Learn the common myths about recycling here.
1/28/19
Roaster List
Roaster List was made to create a single hub for roasters of specialty coffee around the world.
1/29/19
Food52
As a one-stop shop for joyful living, Food52 connects home cooks with the interests they're passionate about. They provide their audience with the recipes and solutions they crave to eat thoughtfully, live joyfully, entertain beautifully, and travel differently.
1/30/19
NewsPaperArchive
NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.
1/31/19
OldMapsOnline
The easy-to-use getaway to historical maps in libraries around the world indexes over 400.000 maps.
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